1940 Academy Awards – Visual Effects Winner and Nominees

The Rains Came

Fred Sersen

Living in India with her crude husband, a British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame at a party, though she truly has her sights set on a handsome doctor.

Gone with the Wind

Jack Cosgrove

Only Angels Have Wings

Roy Davidson

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Byron Haskin

The Wizard of Oz

A. Arnold Gillespie

Topper Takes a Trip

Roy Seawright

Union Pacific

Farciot Edouart